Coworking and its merits and benefits have been under heavy scholarly investigation. Also in practice, the phenomenon with its characteristics and manifestations becomes increasingly relevant on many levels and for many different types of people and organizations. But why is that so, and how are...

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is associated with superior performance, although the mechanisms through which EO translates into an advantageous market position are still poorly understood. Drawing on EO and resource-based theory (RBT) literature, this study highlights the role of a systemic...

When a rising power threatens the position of an incumbent power, historically the result has been war. This conjecture derived from the analysis of the Peloponnesian War by Greek historian Thucydides (460-400 BC) has borne out up to modern times. Statistically, three out of four such situations...

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of business incubators and business accelerators when launching any type of business initiative on to the market, with the aim of discovering whether or not they effectively meet the expectations of both job and value creation for society...

The objective of the present study is to explore and better understand how business model innovation and technology trends have in uenced electricity suppliers in the electricity retail market. We investigate how electricity suppliers can create and deliver values to private customers and...

What is a disruptive innovation? This study confronts this question here by presenting different approaches, which endeavor to explain the dynamic behavior of disruptive technologies in competitive markets. Firstly, this study introduces destructive technology as a radical innovation, based on...

To analyze a widely observable phenomenon - Industry Transformation - adequately, the authors suggest an approach by paradigmatically compatible evolutionary theories on two interrelating levels: the market level (to be analyzed from a New Austrian Economics' perspective) and the firm level (to...

This paper offers a property rights theoretical interpretation of the ownership redirection hypothesis advanced by Oxenfeldt and Kelly (Oxenfeldt and Kelly 1968). In a nutshell, couched in resource dependence theory, the ownership redirection hypothesis argues that successful franchise systems...

quot;It was the fourth report that finally got us seriously thinking about it,quot; Ray Connolly explained to his long-time friend, accountant, and financial advisor, Mike McCarville. quot;That fish kill was just too much, I started to wonder, what am I doing to myself, my family, my neighbours,...

The Palestinian family firm has the advantage of management performance regarding to some financial, marketing and operational aspects compared to the non-family firm, including the rate of return on investments, assets turnover ratio (times a year), inventory turnover ratio, labor productivity...